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Musbvf IN AMERICA.
OS FOOT ' FOR
~t!"\VunT) \U I S TO MUH.tHMK- •-
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RowimrfciTble Stoiry of Hm. M. T^Krep.
York Woman Wlio Ilrilevett
ftv** iti-liwjfon f the Prophet Sujie
-4 ?**' to / )irtKtlunity->I > <MN‘ Muslim
( 4V>i lril>illii K KrreJ,y to the Ord
-11 ml Moyeindllr- \ Itn.lnon River
( iflin'lr.vMioiKit ThaYWio Until for
j* Mosque.
- F IS, by the Aulhqr.)
London, Doc. 16.—1n * few months—just
bow mjn> .will dopeiW on clrcumsUnc s
the •iniil.il styts will.be taken In a Vigo -
oos'fkpd renotule attempt to win the TJoit-
away, from Christianity and In
duce it to accept Mohammedanism into. ad.
A a-aknts terf'owoit4.f the lat.er creed In
Aro<{|- .i has’ offered fifty antes of land
. purpose of colonising Musi.ms
*'tpT'e and few wpcfcs more will see au
kAmfrlean woman, herself a convert to th?
tflarqjctfaith, touring Mohammedan noun
'* tries an# appealing Jur funds to enahje ho
* to retucrfto her native country and there
.expound the theories of the religion which
1 atjains'a*drunkenness and poly
gamy. This is simply another, twit great
er. branch of a Mohammedan plan to con
vert the English people which hits foun I
V* trestfiofl ,in a popular subscription
among the faithful abroad for the ptu-
of establishing a 150,009 mosque in
Ixmdon if la undertaken in precisely the
same spirit in which benevolent persons
irj the tivo great Englieh-.-p aking < oun
-1 tries send missionaries to China and to
Africa. But whbn as missionary socit
ifc-swtri American ami in England, too. are
wonf'tg complain of a lack of enthusiasm
among their financial supporters, hut the
humblest Islam is eager to contribute his
mite—ami has contributed it before t -d ty
( —in aid of "foreign missions." Although
most of thost- who have this new move
ment in charge are more or less reserved
on the subject to outsiders as yet, I have
kueceeded In having a long c-.nveisaiion
with Mrs, M- T. Keep, o quiet liilie wo
man. formerly of New York, and happy In
her hom< lift , who left America in pursui.
o£ the religion that had captivaed her,
and Is now to teturn as Its accredited and
trusted evangelist. Site it Is who has
jilqued curiosity as to her iicniiiy for bo
long, while worshiping at the temporal y
mosque which H.tdjie Mohammed Itoulie,
the Mohammedan teacher, has establish
ed In the Elision Road here in London,
and this is the first interview which she
has granted, although net a few at
rerops have been made to find out who sloe
was. how she came to adopt the faith of
Mohammed, and, moreover. Jf she intend
ed doing anything in the prophet's behalf.
Thoroughly In Earnest.
Mrs. Keep, who once lived on Fifty-first
street, Now York, and later on found a
home in an Egyptian harem, lodges in
West Kensington. London. I found iter
at home, in a neat little room, with two
wax candles burning on the table. In her
youth Mrs. Keep must have been on at
tractive girl: she is now a mlld-looklng,
elderly woman, probably a bit past 50,
white-capped, gray-haired and dressed in
n plain black gown. She is not at nil
wild-eyed, but there is no doubt that she
is thoroughly In earnest regarding the
work which she has undertaken. She
sat down behind one of the candies and
talked Iwiskly, shading the light from
her eyes with one lyand and leaning to
ward the interviewer its she spoke.
“I was a widow and a good way pud
the prime of life before 1 knew' any tiling
of Mohammedanism," she said. "1 was at
tracted to it through reading in the news
papers about the congress of religions at
Chicago. I was interested specially in
the position of Mohammedan women, for
It was easy to see that under that relig
ion alone does our sex know the real
meaning of woman's rights, in which 1
have a)\*ay believed, i found that, ac
cording lo the Mohammedan law', n wo
man's possessions are absolutely unaffect
ed toy marriage, and that among the Is
lamic people such a thing as the moral
degradation of women Is unknown. When
I learned these facts 1 was a reporter on
the staff of a New r York tuisr. but I
had some means and determined to know
all there was to know about this faith.
I got the 'Mohammedan Hed&ya—printed
In four bulky volumes—and read it. What
I found there determined me to go to In
dia and to study, and so ! came to Eng
land, Intend.n.; fater to continue eastward.
My means failed, however, and I remained
here writing for some of the London pa
pers. and for some that a r e published in
India—the latter I am writing for still."
Mrs. Keep told an Interesting story of
a lone woman's fight against big odds In
London, and said that she had once been
employed by an American agency. While
she was working there, two Egyptians—
men—reached London, both unable to
speak English, but conversing fluently in
German. They wanted a guide about the
city, and Mrs. Keep volunteered for the
service, and. as she cxnressed It. ‘Vhap
eroued" them during their stay. Thpy
were brothers-ln-law and held the re
spective ranks of pasha and bey. She
told them of her inclination towards Mo
hammedanism, and when they returned
to Egypt, they promised to do what they
could In the way of giving her oppor
tunities of studying iheir religion. Ac
cordingly. correspondence ensued as to
the practicability of her going to Cairo
and taking up her residence ,n tbelr home.
In the course of their correspondence,
the pasha’s wife, her future hostess, wan
Invariably mentioned as “a great lady."
and the pasha as "the husband of the
great lady.” It was, in fact, one of the
most influential Muslims households in
Cairo, "the great lady" being a princess
In her own right, it was finally decided
that Mrs. Keep should enter the estab
lishment. assisting the pasha's son in his
study of English and herself wrestling
with Arabic and delving Into the tenets
of Mohammedanism under the instruction
of the ‘‘hoja.” or professor, one such be
ing attached to the staff of every well
regulated Muslim household. Here she
resided for considerably over a year.
Unrein Life.
Mrs. Keep says a great deal of non
sense has been written about the Muslim
harem and the ea ibre of its inmates, the
very secrecy in which it is maintained
having, doubtless, stimulated the Imag
inations of the uninitiated. She dismisses
as absurd the many tales of horrors com
mitted In the “harem," and says that the
popular impression that Muslim women
are exceptionally laiy folk is t.\. wrong.
She says, too, the: these women of the
orient feel no less commiseration for the
pitiful state of their occidental sisters
than is inspired in the virtuous bosom- of
proper Anglo-Saxon dames by descrip
tions of harem life. The absolute sacred
rues of the harem, however, has not, she
says, been exaggerated. This seclusion
does not by any means Imply that wo
men are regarded tt* nonentities, for it
seems the Influence of the gentler sex
among Muslims Is often very great, ex
tending even Into poit'l's. In this way
the mother of tbs Sudan of Turkey .•• I
copies mueh the same p.M of authority
as did Gilbert's Mikado's "daughter-in-
Is .v-e'eet," lid as the Kueprers ftow Alter
of I’tflna is now reputed to bold. The
j> nedivs mother and Kbtdlva wife also
wosrien •! much Inflmi.i'e 111 both
■nicy and Egypt, and there ~r. several
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bly preserved In all matters, and the re
sponse to an introduction may be ac
counted amo A the graces which inspired
the phrase “oriental, politeness.” Intro
duced, a woman bows low, so low that her
right hand nearly touches the carper,
then tossing her figure to ereotnees, she
touches her bosom, lips and brow with
her finger tips, signifying “I bow to your
dignity, I cherish you in my heart, I
speak your name wfth honor, I remember
>ou with fidelity.”
Before sitting down lo table, each of the
women, except the ore of highest rank,
is served by slaves with the requisites for
toilet making, but the women most highly
placed makes her ablutions at the table.
‘Mrs. Keep observed in the course of her
residence among Mohammedans, she had
seen only two drunken women, and they
were Knglish. She spoke of the veil and
Hs significance, of the respect which it
was invariably accorded. She said that
girls receive the veil at 7 years of age,
and that the daughter of the poorest
peasants, going our for the most menial
service, goes veiled, and no man dare
raise the veil to see her face.
Never Was a Church Member,
Mrs. Keep said she never ha 1 Jolnel
any of the religious organizations In t! e
United States, simply for the reason that
she could find none that satisfied her. Her
patents died when she was young, and
she entered the family of her uncle, in the
members of which several creeds wee r p
resented—represented not much to their ad
vantage, either, according to her, for she
examined each of them and found it want
ing. She says that when at lust influence
was brought to bear with the Idea of In
ducing her to join a church, the reasons
given her for taking the step werd world
ly ones—woeia!considerations and the like—
till she would have none of it. Site tried
the Swendenborgian Church in her hum
for a faith which satisfied, but turned
away from it. too. It was after her hus
band died that she took 10 newspaper
work. By nature Mrs. Keep is poetic, and
her speech is filled with quotations and
rhetorical flights. She said, “So many
times have a sown and seen others reap
my harvest, that now. should the Bord put
a sickle into nrv hand and bid me reap,
1 should hardly know how to Improve my
opportunity!”
The Hedava, of which Mrs. Ke p
speaks, is, of course, the series of com
mentaries on the Koran—aimed to shed
light upon the teachings of that somewhat
confused record. As for the Koyan Itself,
this advocate of the Islamic doctrine re
cites somewhat eloquently the oil rtory
of the boy Mohammed, a child, so true
and holy that he was known as “the
Faithful,“ but. withal illiterate and una
ble to read or write; nrd of his intercourse
with the angel Gabriel, whose revelations
he, in turn, revealed to his more learned
associates, who wrote ttum on palm
leaves, on skins and bn the shouler
bladea of animals, tumbling a 1 these rec
ords into one sacred cheat from which they
were not removed until n generation had
passed away. Of how they were flna ly
brought to light b,v Hanifa, Mohamm* d\i
descendant, and do’od out to scribe's f* r
transcription by the noble's b autlful and
cultivated wife, so that at last they were
gathered into a volume which, by the pun
ishment which It specifies for certain
is the meet truthful picture which we pos
sess of the time in whkh Mohammed liv
ed. and of Its customs. The Hedaya came
long afterward, a mammoth collect on of
remarks on the sacred words of the
prophet. first translated into Knglish by
order of the then governor general of Ih n-
Fttl by ChaiK-.*, Hamil on cf London, an l
dedicated to Warren Hasdngs, his patron.
Ur*. Keep's Muslim Enemy.
But al’.. It seems, is not as well ns coufd
Is* wished in the Mohammedan camp.
Mrs. Keep hinted darkly at Influences
which worked against her when first eho
came to England, and she said that when
she went <0 Egypt it was reported in
England and in Egypt that she had died
and been burled ot sea, and that sooner
or later, her rival threatened, should she
dabble too much in Mohammedan lore,
she would be dumped Into the Bosphorus.
She whispered that her mysterious antag
onist was a woman, "one very high, yet
very low," she put it. ami that there Is
still war between them.
She said also that the only reason there
Is the least difficulty in raising money
among 'Mohammedans for m:ss on work In
pagan America and England was because
they hate so often been deceived wlih
specious tales of what was soon to be
accomplished, and gave lavishly to the
author of the tales —only 10 find out Inter
on. that iheir money was us-d for the
private enrichment of their evangelists.
Mrs. Keep said that no' a thousand miles
from New York stands a magnificent coun
try house built from the doles of the Mo
hammedan !or. under the Impression
tnat that eonntry house was a mosque to
be devoted to the worship of Allah
It was illness that ''rot' her from
Eg)pi. for the cholera visited the district
111 which rh. W..S living, and she ..at
tracted the ilia. . —. and 011 V escaped eue
eiini'dng to It by ie urning to England
Here she renewed her 1 irußgl- for exist-
writings for
of her va|N*rtMcv In Egypt. Hhe malt
oeinlr. and U > there that ght m> 1 I
Ha ij.e Duulle. and that l Hey Joints! loft tut
THE MORNING -NEWS: SUNDAY-; DECEMBER 31. 189'A
r 4n r 4S ea a n ",V" Am<irlc - as well as
“fflclaiS in" 1 , 6 ,!'!’!*'* h Maham "
..e is Zlf'l ’ .rKreonX
returns f , a,,h ' an<l from I *nris Ihe
(•turns to Egypt, 10 Bwing 'round the cir
work S ?n he rW iT f 1 U ,!^* o for hf ' f missionary
f 1 n,t€d States, and inspiring
iasm f 'over U |), WUh , new VlKor an<l Bhus-
T he r,r °l ect of colonization and
wholesale conversion in darkest America.
_ Marshall Lord.
THE DEBUTANTE TYRANT.
It Costs More to In (rod nee the Sweet
llnd (o Society, Than Build a
House.
New York. Dec. 29—The debutante
daughter 10-day is a tryant and an extrav
agance. To such a point of splendor have
the introduction teas for young girls ar*
rived, that except the most gorgeous wed
ding receptions they stand alone for sump
tuous beauty and royal liberality of ap- 1
! ” !' tr . npr !; s ,i As /ar as cost goes there is
little to distinguish them from bridal func
tions. Every thing that a bride has or
needs, with the exception solely of a hus
hud )S SUpplle<l ,he swee * but Insatiable
in With her trousseau. Down to
■he hist handkerchief and paper of pins
It must lie prepared before her tea, for
a 'l , r "'i' l Brand entertainment so List and
thick do the Invitations fall around her
she will have neither time nor energy to
stend In shops and dressmakers' estab
lishments. The debutante gown is a cos
tume as complete and costly as a wedding
dress, and lo every one of the girl friends
a>ked to receive with her a souvenir gift
with bouquets must lie given by the debu
tante. The daughter will expect from her
father a necklace, a ring or a fan, from
her mother a brooch or some ornament
that will look well with her white coming
out gown, with Jess costly articles from
other members of the family.
Having toed the mark on all these
points the self-respecting relatives must
not stint In floral decorations for the
drawing rooms, they must have one or
two bands of music, and they will be :
eternally and unpleasantly talked about in
their social round of the ladder if they
set forth any less sumptuous refreshments
than are regarded as orthodox, for de
butante teas and champagne is the one
proper beverage to be poured.
There is no going behind the rule re
garding debutantes’ bouquets, and here we
come very often upon a pathetic skeleton
In the closet of an ambitious but not too
pretty or too popular social bud. Having
issued her cards, bought her fine gowns
and ordered her delicate wines and vi
ands. she and her mother sits with palpi
tating heart to watch her bouquets arrive
The friends of the family and the young
men in the society In which she is enter
ing are supposed to send them, ond to ap
pear lo proper advantage it is obligatory
that she receive with not one or two, but
a dozen huge noosegays about her.
So obligatory Indeed is this feature of
the "coming out” that not one girl in a
dozen ever receives from her admirers
naif the bouquets she appears with on
her reception day. but stands embowered
in the posies ordered up from the florist
by the diplomatic parents. However so- 1
ciety enjoys its self-deceptions, and to :
such an extent has the bouquet fad grown
that this 'Winter scores of young girls
have slood to receive their friends beside
tables heaped with as many as thirty i
bunches of the costliest noses and st igger- ;
Ing helpless under the burden of posies i
in their arms.
When the coming out tea is over then
the debutante enters really on her but
terfly season of brilliancy and power. If
she Is to do her family credit, like a high
sirung race horse or prims donna her
health and spirits must be maintained at
concert pltoh. The family carriage is
put at her command or she must be given
a good margin of credit at the livery sta
ble. the freedom of the drawing room, the
luxury of breakfast In bed. the comfort
and simulus of a masseuse, a manicure
and hair dresser and first claim on all the
opera, theater and eoneert seats are yield
ed up to her. Haying invested n large
sum of money in the making of a fashlon
ab.e daughter, the wise ixirents give her
every opportunity and three months in
which to prove the value of their invest
ments.
Of course this is all very well with par
cm- whose incomes will guarantee the
enormous expenditure entailed by a com
plot, slngli campaign, but ihe extrava
gant demands of the ambitious buds to
day have forced the merely well-to-do
families Into comblnui.or.r for mutual
protection against the enormous expenses
of the initial tea. Two. three, or even
five buds will aigw-ar together at u single
reception held In some host's private
drawing r oom the r mot her. bearing each
a |st lon of the costs ad thus the effect
of a thousands!,dlar entertainment U se
cured at s third of (hat sum.
—"As I understand If," nays Mrs. Gas
sum, “by the wireless telegraph system
ihe messages go right through the air we
breathe" "Yes, that Is correct," 4mvM .
ed Mr tlaggam. "Then a pmm wh., lat
}ii.i filed a message in the l degraph of
n t may swallow hit own jorda uii bis
Wray bwOK."—Harper's ilsgtr,
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TI'ME TABLE EFF ECTIVE NOV. 20, 1899.
Ail trains dally except 40, dallJWexcept Sunday.
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Ar New Tor p k la ..;:;;;;;;;i |1 2 1 £*! I !£ bouth and Florida points.
_Ar Boston j 9 00p; 3 30p| | 33
WEST DIVISION AND N. O.
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Lv Jacksonville 7 45p 9 20a Ar Jacksonville | 9 loa| 7 40p
Ar Lake City 9 3op 11 28a Ar St Augustine |lO 30a|
Ar Live Oak 10 30p 12 ISp Ar Waldo 11l 25a|10 41P
Ar Madison ii p Ar Gainesville 12 01n|
Ar Mont iceUo 320 p A r Cedar Keys 7 sp|
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Ar Quincy 4 39p Ar Wildwood 2 32p) 54t
Ar River Junction L. 6 25p A r Leesburg 3 10p| 4 30a
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TURKEY' ftIEES OF TEXAS.
Slays She Can Readily Clear Twenty- ‘
live Hnndred Dollars a Year.
New York, Dec. 29. "I made $2,500
last year raising turkeys,” said (Miss Ar
illa Martin, a youtg woman who is known
in Texas, her natjve state, as the Turkey
Queen.
“Because I livelln Texas, however, you
must not gall myl place a turkey ranch.
It is simply a will-conducted farm, and
other things are raised beside turkeys. In
deed until five yefirs ago we didn’t raise
our own turkeys j even for Thanksgiving
and Christmas. ,
"I began with flve hens and a gobbler.
You know. I suppose, that a turkey hen
almost invariably) lays thirteen eggs be
fore she begins li set. and also that sho
lavs two 'litters bf eggs’ a year. Well,
that first year, o the 125 eggs set in the
spring, all hatched excepting flve, and I
raised 117 birds. I
"In the autuml, when my hens laid
again, I followed my original plan of buy
ing extra eggs, ijut was neither so suc
cessful in the hitching nor the raising,
bringing up on) | seventy-nine. Yet 79
and 117 makes 66, so when I tell you
that I sold ihos*' turkeys at an average
price of 67 cents, ycu will see (hat 1 had
a snug little sqm tot my trouble. As that
was my first year Ihe food had cost me
personally nothing. My father having told
me at the beginnii g to go ahead and raise
all the turkeys I wished to.
“However, when the second year began,
although I started out with the r ime six
birds, 1 determined to put myself bn a
business basis with the rest of my family.
s<4 1 used a iurga part of my earnings
of the year before in buying food as wed
as building fowl houses and yards. Then
I followed the*plati of the previous sea
son in every particular, excepting that X
added flve Bramah chickens —hens, of
course—to my tiock. These I set on tur
key eggs about thi same time that I did
my turkeys and when they hatched out I
gave all the little ones to the chicken
hens to mother and turned the turkey
hen out into the pasture to lay another
litter of eggs. Tds they will generally
do in the spring when, not allowed to raise
the first brood. That spring I raised 300
turkeys and in Ihe autumn 234 more. This
time I did not sell all. Instead, I in
creased my stock o fifty.
"From that flock of fifty I sold 1,400,
rifter increasing mv Hock to 100 and fur
nishing the table with as many turkeys
as the family cared to eat.
“Of course my methods have changed
very much since tae flock has increased
from five to one hundred stock birds. I
no longer use hong to hatch the eggs, but
incubators. I buy the food by the quantity
and plant acres and acres of small grain
to give them green food. I plant whole
fields of snallots and peppers as well as
corn and I employ two women and sev
eral boys to attend <0 them, yet, in spite
of all these expenses, last year I cleared
more than twenty-five hundred dollars.
“The greatest trouble about raising tur
keys is with dews and rains when they
are young. Young turkeys should be hous
ed at night In a house or covered yard and
not allowed to run into weL grass. As food
for the birds I usu bread of unsifted, un
salted corn meal, into which a good quan
tity of ted peppt r Is mixed. As green foo I
for them until they are old enough to look
out for themselves, 1 feed them the
tier tops of shallots, chopped fine. After
rhey pass helr fourth month I treat them
pntty much as sheep feeding them twice
a day, morning and night.
"My birds meet with ready sale and al
ways fetch good prices. 1 take orders for
birds fattened on fancy foods, such as
nuis, etc., which are supposed to flavor the
flesh and of course these turkeys bring
high prices. I see no reason why other
women should not succeed In the work
ad "would be only too g'ad to give all as.
tistance in my power <0 them.
Lafayette W. Laws.
A HOY'S IMG I'HEANA NTI4Y.
It Is Owned li> Wallace Evans of
Chicago.
Chicago, Dec 29 —Wallace Evans, n slen
der, thirteen-yea:-old lad In knickerbock
ers, owns the largest pheasantry in the
West, selling WO eggs In a season and
hatching n arly as many birds.
Such an enterprise conducted by a bay is
generally a makeshift, but the Evans
pheasantry i* perfect in construction, hav
ing about 175 by 2W feet under wire with
the lales's Improved httG her and houses,
it is divided Into a network of special
yards, every gat* closing and locking au
lomuticaliy so there Is no danger of Ihe
birds escaping.
The 110 k of gold pheasant* Is a gorgeous
sight wlm their bill.lain yellow heads,
<■!• of orange and blu lined with vivid
gr in. scgilct holies, burnished wings and
long graceful tail, doited with black. They
si*,* .1 fad small 4 fanciers and (heir price
is In nosing a* they now bring $. a
lair
Tl.* beautifully pUftoagi and hen lays thirty
eggs In a > os*." which are worth lie a
do on H has a large nuinta-r of English
pheasants furn hiitg 1 One iwntrael lo
the gosh beautit*. they lag iM tu
75 eggs, which are readily sold for $5 a set
ling.
His covey of quails would make a hun
ter's heart leap, as they fly to cover wilh
a whir of wings and warning cries. The oM
| birds were imported from Tennessee where
[ thousands of the luckless birds follow a
trail of grain leading straight into a wire
I enclosed correl and are there shipped to
j breeeders.
I In the center of each yard is a neatly
■ stacked pile of brush and straw which
affords a native retreat for all the birds.
Tfie English pheasants are very handy
and frolic in the snow and ice like chil
dren, but the golden hover in their houses
in bitter cold weather.
Wallace also raises canaries on a large
scale, and this aviary is an ideal place,
for the songsters never dream they are
Imprisoned. Their breeding cage is a
building, 15x20 feet, filled up with branches
and boughs, where they build their nests
like wild birds and their play cage is 20x30
feet. A red squirrel with a splendid brush
Is their sole companion.
I Then there are fancy chickens, Golden
1 Polish with dazzling feathers that look
as if they had been dipped In, gorgeous
dyes and black Polish white crested fowls,
whose snowy bonnets are like nodding
chrysanthemums. Fear is unknown In
the pheasantry, even the timid quad
comes at his whistle. He will have a
large exhibit at the fourth annual show
of the Chicago poultry and pet stock ex
hibition in January and expects to add to
his fine collection of first prize ribbons.
Taken as a whole, the pheasantry re
flects unbounded credit on its boyish pro
prietor, who. in addition to having the
sole care of it, is finishing the eighth
grade course in the Oak Park School.
Jennie Van Allen.
THE FRESH WATER HYDRA.
A More Dreadful Crentnre Than
Mythology Ever Conceived of.
There was once, says mythology, a hy
dra which inhabited the marsh of Lerne
in Greece and spread terror in all the
country around. This frightful creature
had seven heads and if some adventurer
tried, with a praiseworthy intention, to
cut off one, it immediately grew again.
Now, there actually exists animals
which, considering their small size, are
more dreadful than the hydra of the
Greeks.
It Is a simple sack of some few milli
metres in length called the fresh water
hydra. Around the orifice of the sack,
an orifice which is the mouth of the ani
mal, are found dispose,) long arms or ten
tacles, armed with poisonous darts.
The hydra, very greedy and always In
quest of prey, ceaselessly agitating its long
arms in the water, and if one of (hem en
counters any animalcule, it twines itself
round the poor victim, pierces it with its
darts, paralyzes it, and so carries it to
the mouth of the hydra which swallows
and ingests it.
There is nothing very extraordinary In
all that, but here is where the fantastic
begins; cut off one of the arms of the
hydra, and at the- end of twenty hours
the arm will have grown out again; split
the animal lengthwise, in such a way as
to separate in two halves, each part folds
back on itself, welds its two edges togeth
er, and you have two hydra instead of
one.
Instead of splitting the animal length,-
wiF\ cut it across in such a way as to
have at the top a depth of sack without
tentacles, at the bottom a kind qf rin
or tube provided wilh arms, but open at
both ends; you will see the upper half pro
vide itself very rapidly with arms and the
lower part, which already has tentacle--
close itself at the top, in such a way that
each half of the original hydra will be
come a complete hydra.
Cut the hydra in ds many pieces as you
may. and each piece will become a perfect
hydra, which soon begins to search
for food, without having the air of trou
bling about the operation which gave it
birth One can do better yet; one can if
it is done carefully, turn the hydra ln!do
out as oie turns the finger of a glove so
that the stomach of the animal becomes
lis skin and Its skin its stomach. In the
first moments the hydra seems to exper
ience a certain inconvenience; it does not
| seem to bo sure of Itself. Frankly after
such an experience, it would be strange
If It did. Rit at last, at the end of a few
hours, It appears to take its lot phlloeoph
, ieally and takes food and digests its with
its former skin which become its new
stomach.
This Is still nol all. II Mld thnt
wolves will nol eat each other. That is n
saying evidently false as concerning the
wolves, but rigorously true with regard *->
the hydras. One may take advantage of
the gluttony of the animal to make It
swallow one of Its kind, but It wl I not
delay in finding out the trick played upon
It and It Immediately vomits up Its com
rade, thus showing singular examtH
of fraternity. But wh.re the 'evotion of
the hydra becomes abnegation. Is When
one prevents the swallowed hydra from •.
cap mg ) piercing both of them with ,
bristle; then the exterior hydra extends
Itself In length, wlilie (he Interior hydra
get m off, carry lag with li the brlsil which
traverses It and which does riot non ~
* ** ** 'tot the fstile of It,, hydra
of faSlit- Is considerably auipaxeed by the
resit* y.
Plant System.
M' ——
Trains Operated by noth Meridian Time—One Hour Slower Thais City Tims. ,
READ DOWN" ' j] Effective Dec. 10. llriM.il HEAD UP,
* j" 3J |32 ~j '•g, 178 ,|| NORTH and EAST. || 23 |35|37 | 18 | . '
....... ...... 11 40p 6 s#a'l l lOaliL/v ~ Savannah ... Ar ; 3 15a| 7 2t>a| i 45p
4 :-.Sp lu 30a, •! Ua ,Ar •• Charleston ... Jev 11 loaj 5 Myj b.'p - _
3 25a 7 25p ;Ar ... Richmond .. Lv;; 9 05a! 6 48p| -
7 oia 11 30p Ar .. WastollrgtOD .. Lv I 4 30a| 3 07p|
8 23a 1 08a! lAr ... Baltimore ... Lv | 2 55a| 1 46p| -
luSSa., 3 50,i Ar ..Philadelphia .. Lv 113 20a 111 33a | -
1 03p 6 53a;lAr ..New Yolk ... Lv j 9 00p( 9 -
8 30p...... 3 OOpljAr Boston Lv|| 1 00p|12 n't|
~ IJTaCL ILK ACL |j -SOUTH- lIACLT- fS R. ACL SAL
15 33 35 35 23 || |j 78 jl3 |B4 3. 06 .
5 UOp 3 2op| 7 40al 5 20a 2 sJaji.v ... Savannah ... Ar|| 1 15a|10 25a|12 lOp 12 20p 11 P
8 OOpj 6 50p 9 50b 7 25a 5 00a -Ar .... Waycross .... Lvj|lo 35p( 7 06a| 9 55a 10 05a 9 ,Wp
10 OOpi 7 40p 11 50a 9 25a, 7 30a;[Ar ..Jacksonville- Lvjj 7 4op| 5 00a| 8 00a 8 00a 7 lop
12 47a |l2 47a 2 OOp 11 50a'u 50a jAr Palatka .... Lv|| 5 05p| 2 40a 2 40a 2 40a 5 (Bp
3 52a 3 52a 5 20p 5 20pi lAr ..Winter Park... Lv|| 1 33p|U 29p|U 29p 11 29p 1 33p
4 Ola; 4 Ola 5 30p 6 Sop< |Ar .... Orlando Lvj| 1 24p|1l 20p|U 20p 11 20p 1 2ip
4 34a| 4 34a 6 Olp 6 04p LAr.... Kissimmee.... Lv||l2 49p|10 44*>ilO 44p 10 44p 12 4>p
3 Ssp| 2 25p 2 25p||Ar .. Gainesville.... Lv|| 1 00p| 1 OOp
<£sp 310 p 3 l(f• Ar 9Ocala Lv|ll2 15p| , 12 15p
| 4 55p i 55p Ar .Leesburg.... Lv : ;l0 25aj * 10 2oa
9 3,'jpj 9 35p 9 35p| Ar Bellealf .... Lvi| 5 55ai 5 55a
lO 30p;i0 30p|10 30p Ar .St. Petersburg.. Lv|| 5 ooa| 5 00a
7 00a, 7 00a 8 40p: 9 55p 9 55p|iAr Tampa Lv; 10 10a| 7 35p 7 35p 7 35p 10 10a
7 30aI 7 30a 9 lOp 10 30p'10 30p Ar .. .Port Tampa.. Lv|| 9 40a| 7 OOp 7 OOp 7 OOp 9 40a
3 OOpI 3 OOp 12 40a'12 40a!12 40a 'Ar ..Punta Gorda... Lv| | 335 p 335 p 335 p
1 5 15p'!0 30a ! 10 30n Ar St A in? listing..'Lvll C 20pl 5 iOp
NORTH. WEST AN D SOUTHWEST.
I 5.R.11 Via Jesup. li fSAL" |AlSIj] Via Montgomery || pOL
15 135 |j II 15 ]_*_ J IS IC6 II II 15 36
5 00p, 5 20a,;Lv. Savannah 7aF|: 10 25a 1 1 59p ! 5 (klp| 7 40a||Lv. Savannah .Ar||lo 25a 11 5p
6 55pj 630a Ar.... Jesup ...Lv I 8 Isa'lo SOp 1 50al 1 50p |Ar Thomasviile Lv|| 2 00a 5 30p
3 00a llopLAr Macon .. .Lv j 1 OOaj 2 30p | 810 a-j 9 30p||Ar M'tgomery Lvj| 7 45p 11 25a
520a| 3Wp Ar.. Atlanta ..Lv 10 15p'12 05p 7 10p| 6 50a||Ar. Nashville .Lv;|9ooa 2 21a
9 45a S4op Ar Chat no .ga Lv ! 5 50pi 6 45a 2 30a|12 25p||Ar. Louisville .Lv|| 2 55a 9 12p
7 30p| 7 45.1 Ar. Cincinnati .Lv | 8 30a; 8 OOp 7 05a| 4 05p||Ar. Cincinnati .Lv||ll OOp 5 45p
7 30pj 7 50a||Ar. Louisville -Lv | 7 45a| 7 lip 7 20a| 716p;|Ar.. St. Louis ..Lvj| 8 55p 8 28*
7 01a| 6 OOp : Ar.. St. Louis ..Lv | 9 15p| 8 08a | || (L. & N.) II
7 15a | 5 lOpllAr.. Chicago ..Lv | 8 30p| 9 00a 732a| [lAr. St. Louis .Lv 8 OOp
_ s _ 3oa* 4 iSp.jLv ..Atlanta . Ar 10'35p|U 30 • —J.L taw t
8 06p| 7 15a Ar ~M< mphls. Lv | 8 20a 9 OOp _ 8 09a l 9 lap|)Ar.. Chicago ..LV|| 7 OOp 1 oOp
9 45a | 7 10a i! Ar Kan-asCityLVj; 6 30p| 9 45p 4 12p| 3 05a||Ar... Mobile... Lv||l2 58p|12 20a
BRUNSWICK VIA JESUP. "" 8 30p l 7 40a tl A r N. Orleans Lv 7 55a| 7 45p
Wp|s 20aI Lv. Savannah ArlllO 250(1159? 8 *>Pj 7 'll Jv. Savannah - ArlilO Halil 39p
4 54p' 6 36a Ar ... Jesup. . Lv|| 8 15a 10 ::0n 7 06a l 2 BOp Ar... Tlfton ...Lv, 115a 5 SOp
6 55p| 8 45a,|Ar Brunswick Lv|| 6 Waj 8 30P * *■} g bo l um"us".Lv| l |'. . ■ !l0 OOa
J ackscufv file St * /fugus U nef' and Nm! No. 82 ieave Thomasviile 5:0. am.; a,-'
15 and S. R. 33, between Bartow. Fla., rive Savannah (as No. 32) 12.20 p. m. ,
and Punta Gorda. Fla., daily except Sun. '*>.
THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR SERVICE TO NORTH, EAST AND
WEST, AND TO FLORIDA.
PLANT STEAMSHIP LINK
Mon., Thurs., Sat., UOOpnrjLv Port Tampa Ar| 230 pm. Tues„ Thurs., Sun.
Tues., Frl., Sun., SOOpm |Ar.. Key West ..Lv| 930 pm. Mon., Wed., Sat.,
Tues., Frl., Sun., 900 pm.|Lv.. Key West ..Ar| 730 pm. Mon., Wed., Sat.,
Wed., Sat., Mon., 600 am.[Ar... Havana ...Lv|l2 30 n'n. Mon., Wed., Sat.
H. G. Haycraft. Trav., Pass., Agt., De Soto Hotel. E. A. Armand, City Ticket Agt.
B. W. WRENN, Passenger Traffic Manager. Savannah, Ga.
Georgia and Alabama Railway.
Passenger Schedules effective Dec. 24, 1899.
Trains operated by 90th meridian time—one hour slower than City Time.
read IT - C) Head
DOWN || [L-J 1 ?
Nol 19[No.l7|| . ljNo.iBj-No.aO
6 30p| 7 25a II Lv Savannah Ar j | 8 25p 8 40a
7 10p| 8 08ai|Ar Cuyler Lvj| 7 43p 7 57a
10 21 pj 7 4a|;Ar Statesboro Lv|| 5 45p 5 OOa
8 46p| 9 45aj|Ar Collins Lv|| 6 09p 6 35a
10 50p|U 45aj|Ar Helena Lv|| 4 05p . 4 40a
3 05aj 4 ISp.Ar Macon Lv||ll 20a|12 55nc
5 20a 7 35pj Ar Atlanta Lv | 7 50a 10 45p
9 45a| 1 00a| Ar Chattanooga Lv j 3 05a 6 05p
I' 12 36p Ar Abbeville Lv , 3 lop
8 OSpj Ar Fitzgerald Lv 12 55p
1 40p Ar Cordeie Lv | 2 lOp
310 p Ar Amerlcus Lv ,12 34p
5 20p Ar Columbus Lv 10 OOa
3 20p| Ar Albany Lv 1 12 OOn
7 55p Ar Montgomery Lv 7 45a
11 35a!12 25nt Ar Birmingham Lv | 4 40p
4 12pl 3 05a; Ar Mobile Lv| 12 20nt|
8 30pi' 7 40aj;Ar New Orleans Lv 7 45p|
7 30pi 4 05p' Ar Cincinnati Lv j 8 30a
7 20a{ 7 16pi|Ar St. Louis Lv | 8 55p
All trains run daily. ,
Magnificent buffet parlor cars on Train s 17 and 18. : t • <_ ■
CONNECTIONS. W
AT CUYLER with Savannah and Statesboro Railway.
AT COLLINS with Stillmore Air Line, also with Collins and Reidsville Railroai
AT HELENA wilh Southern R ilway.
AT CORDELE with Georgia Southern and Florida Railway; also with Albany
and Northern Railway.
AT RICHLAND with Columbus Division.
AT MONTGOMERY with Louisville and Nashville and Mobile and Ohio Ra ’
roads. m „
For rates or any other information, call on or address
W. P. SCRUGGS. C. P. and T. A., Bull and Bryan streets,
WM. BUTLER. JR., T. P. A., Bull and Bryan strets. , -
A. POPE, General Passenger Agent.
CECIL OABBETT. Vice President and General Manager.
MCMILLAN BROS.,
—Manufacturers of—
Seamless Turpentine
Stills and Fixtures.
PATCHING COPPER AND RIVETS,
SHEET AND BOLT COPPER.
Repairing through the country a special.
y.
SAVANNAH, GA. MOBILE, ALA.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.
The lllack Walnut.
From the Berea Quarterly.
The great eize oflen reached by this
tree, the richiv'ss of the dark brown wood,
the u.itque beauty of the grain sometimes
found Ir. burls, knots, feathers, and in the
curl of ihe roots, all conspire to make
this the most choice and high-priced of
.11 our tvttive woods.
Twenty-live years ago walnut was ex
tensively t.-<ed In the manufacture of fine
furniture ;td furnishings in this country,
but mnnufts-turers adroitly drew aticn
llon to the I cutty of darkly stained quar
tered oak. arc’ the use of the rarer wood
has greatly ..'t lined. But all this time
the search foe line black walnut logs has
gone on sysier.x uically, though qui- dy,
the trade attract.! little attention, though
the volume of I,* liber handl, and has lx • n
large. Though f<,und to some extent in
the Atlantic stales from Massachusetts
southward, the gres, soerte of supply has
is. n t hi nlral port Vns of the Misslssi q
Valley. The walnut la at home In the rich
niluvlal iMiltom land* of the Western
streams and in ih>- snny limestone soils
of the hills and mountains, and BUrtl
lo ulliles the*.,uyers hav U ft few tre-s
ur,surveyed. Throuslioui k astern Kansas
Missouri and Arka as. as well as the
si ties along the ohto nnd ii * irihutarl. <
muy l.e seen a f. logs.ui <) - little sta
iloti m ear or (Mi at that. h carefully |
fiewn set- and painted ends, ready for!
U > aj ask white i| ir-itket :# ytni will i
mat (be great bu'k f this .n. re ;um- I
Is r goes to Eufofir
U hi 9 w have twrs |c,j into an -t, i iiusl- '
astle olmutiou for tins oak, e'-t tm 1 wc
0^
"^GEORGIA
Schedules Effective Nov. 8. 1899.
Trains arrive at and depart from
Central Station, West Broad, Foot of
Liberty street.
90th .Meridian Time—One hour slower than
city time.
Leave Arrive
Savannah: Savannah:
.Macon, Augusta, Atlanta, '
*8 43am|Covington. Milledgevllle *6 OOptn
land all intermediate points.
(Augusta, Macon, *
gomery, Atlanta, Athens,
*9 00pm|Columbus, Birmingham, *6 00am ■<
lAmericus, Eufaula and
|Troy.
46 00pm Dover Acoonunodatloik |t7 48am
t 2 00pm| Guyton Dinner Train. |+4 Sbprn
•Daily. iMi y except Sunday. “*
BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND TYBEE.
*sui meridian or Savannah city time.
Leave Savannah Sunday, Tueoday, Wed
nesday, Friday and Saturday 9:35 a ra.|
. Monday and Thursday 6:25 1 m.. daily
3 :05 p. in.
Returning, leave Tybee Sunday, Tues
day, Wednesday. Friday and Saturday
10;3ti a. m.; Monday and Thursday 7:15 a>
m.; daily 5:30 p. m.
Connections made at terminal points *
with til trains Northwest, Wt and'4
Souths est. 4
Sleep.Hg cars on night train* betweon ’
navamv 111 and Augusta, Macon, Atlanta
and Bi.'jnlngrtam.
Parlor cars on day traixs between
Savannal'. Macon and Atlanta.
For complete information, schedtilM,
rai*H andf connections lpply to
W. G. li iTEWER, city Tlrket and Pas
eng.-r Ag. I. ID7 Bull xtroet.
W H. MdINTYRE, D-net Ticket Agent.
J. C. HAILE. General Passenger Agent.
E. i. HINTON. Traffic Manager
THKi i I). JvI.INK, Or. Superintendent.
JOHN M. LOAN. Vice ITesldint,
Savannah. Ga. I
cording to thi degree of antiquity it Is
rupp ii-d 10 r*ivt nt. our European .-ous
•n ban lacn paying fancy prices for th
filch black walnut that we have nttowei
•o go "out ot fa.k Ion." ‘
Non-l'nloti Tro iMes—“l'd tie willing mX
work fifteen hours m day for you dktiltur ®
lie ardsntly pleaded, "Ucabt" she hie*Mfl
•is she six. pi fret 11 t n room, for hr papS
• J wmlkliig itiUl.aAe.— Uvollln bilk ■